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ON TASTE IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. 



Pakt II. 



from another, and a foot from a third, all of different charac- 

 ters ; perhaps on the plea of variety {fig. 2). 



Meretricious ornament, combined with richness of material, 

 is one of the greatest enemies to good taste, because it may 

 captivate by its pretensions, and even appear to assert a 

 right to admiration, from the doubtful merit of being in the 

 salons of the great. Many, therefore, of the worst forms in 



(32.) 



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Fig. 1. Figs. 2 and 3. 



Sevres china pass for beautiful, when they should be con- 

 demned as deformities, whether composed of porcelain and 



rich with or-molu, or formed of the same material through- 

 out ; and we often find an idea taken from a jug of good 



